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PHOTO ABOVE LEFT: David seen here with his 3 x 4 foot painting "Reaching For The Cure" that he donated to The American Cancer Society for their benefit art auction at Le Chateau restaurant in South Salem NY on September 27th, with Martha Rodriguez of the ACS and Pleiades President Ellen Bradshaw.

PHOTO ABOVE RIGHT: David with ACS Eastern Division Regional Vice-President Rick Lepkowski holding the check for $1,695 that David donated to the ACS, representing 30% of the proceeds from sales of his work at the Pleiades show.One of David's small giclées on paper of the painting is in the background.

            David's painting, "Reaching for The Cure", was created especially for the American Cancer Society and donated by him for their benefit art auction of work by a number of local and internationally well-known artists at their Evening of Jazz, held at Le Château restaurant in South Salem NY on Thursday, September 27th. A photo of David with the paintings has been featured in the November 2007 issue of Art Business News in their Picture Gallery section. That same week, David also donated a painting to Westchester's Danny Fund, an organization that provides financial, emotional and advocacy support for the families of children under the age of 21 who reside in Westchester and the Bronx, for their fund raiser Casino Night at the New York Athletic Club in Pelham on September 28th.

             This Pleiades exhibition, which David titled "Driving Force" included many other paintings, prints of "Reaching for The Cure" and his welded steel sculptures, & ran through October 13th. The exhibition featured paintings in which he had taken a number of varied artistic approaches in terms of technique over the past few years, with subjects that concern him personally. His own artist's statement about this show can be read on his artist's statement page.

             Also, earlier the same moth as this show opened, David was admitted to membership in the prestigious Manhattan Arts International Online Gallery, where some of his paintings and sculptures are now on exhibition, along with those of other professional selected artists from around the world. For more information on Manhattan Arts International, please visit their web site. The September 2007 issue of Art in America described the Pleiades show as "Human drama, subconscious imagery, and a playful imagination, all coalesce in paintings and sculpture".

             Gallery & Studio magazine reviewed Driving Force, and the complete full-page article by Ed McCormack in the Fall '07 edition of G&S can be read as a PDF on our G&S Review page. Gallery & Studio magazine's own website is www.galleryandstudiomagazine.com. To learn more about Pleiades Gallery, see a recent interview with Pleiades's president, Ellen Bradshaw on the Contemporary Art Gallery magazine's website.

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At the September 29th reception there were refreshments and entertainment by keyboard artist Kirk Enrenreich, who was a hit also at David's Westchester solo show reception at Cunningham Gallery in Hawthorne, NY in June '07, and who also entertained at Ms. Bradshaw's Pleiades opening receptions in '07.

            The full text of our media release for this Pleiades exhibition, with photos of art in the show can be found on our media release page, and a larger photo of "Reaching for the Cure" and Tobey's description of elements in the painting can be seen here.